Mississippi blues singer Robert “Wolfman” Belfour will perform at next Friday’s Mississippi Blues Project concert at World Cafe Live. A native of Red Banks, Miss., and a student of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbourgh, Belfour made his name in Memphis before traveling and gaining popularity among the European audience. He released two albums on Fat Possum Records in the early aughts, and will perform during Free at Noon at World Cafe Live on Friday, February 15th, alongside Anthony “Big A” Sherrod and Robert “Bilbo” Walker Jr. To attend the concert, RSVP here. If you can’t be there in concert, you can stream the concert online at XPN.org beginning at 12 p.m. EST on February 15th. Below, watch a video of Belfour performing “Hill Stomp.”
Jarekus Singleton is a young bluesman from Jackson MS. He’s certainly a hometown favorite, but his name is starting to be known in other places. His influences are not strictly “Mississippi” artists, but he is an invigorating influence to the blues scene in Jackson and beyond. His debut album “Heartfelt” is a thoroughly-modern download-only album.
The legendary Muddy Waters, born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, on April 4, 1915, appeared on an episode of Soundstage from the show’s very first season as a syndicated show in 1974. Filmed in the studios of WTTW in Chicago, Muddy Waters was joined by Pinetop Perkins, Johnny Winter, Mike Bloomfield, Junior Wells, Dr. John, Koko Taylor, Willie Dixon, Nick Gravenites and Buddy Miles. Watch it below.
Big George Brock and Cedric Burnside Project performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th for our first Mississippi Blues Project concert. Watch a video of Burnside and guitarist Trenton Ayers perform “Po Black Mattie” below.
Our next concert is with Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes on Monday, October 22nd at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia. More information about the show is here.
Mark your calendars now for the next show in the Mississippi Blues Project series. On Monday, October 22nd, Terry “Harmonica” Bean and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes. Guitarist Holmes, in his mid-Sixties, is from Bentonia, Mississippi and is the owner of the [...]
I call him “Bala Cynwyd’s Greatest Bluesman.” He has been in the western Philadelphia suburb since 1969, though it would be inaccurate to say he lives there. Skip James is buried in Merion Memorial Park, down the street from the [...]
Jesse Mae Hemphill was an award-winning electric guitarist, singer and songwriter who specialized in Northern Mississippi country blues. She was born in 1934 near Como and Senatobia, Mississippi in Northern Mississippi just east of the Mississippi Delta. According to Livin [...]
Son House was one of the most deeply affecting blues performers of all time. He had done some preaching in Mississippi, and was apparently quite good at it, though in his own life, the booze and the women kept him [...]
The Cedric Burnside Project, along with Big George Brock are our first two Mississippi blues artists to be featured in our Mississippi Blues Project concert series. They’ll be performing at the Philadelphia Folk Festival on Sunday, August 19th. Go here [...]
